Obama biographer: “The world seems to disappoint him”

posted at 11:21 am on May 6, 2014 by Allahpundit

Via the Weekly Standard, a classic summation of foreign policy Hopenchange-style, right up there with “leading from behind.” This attitude, that Obama is perpetually the only adult in the room of whatever room he’s in, has been part of his presidential DNA since the day he was sworn in. Remember this line from his first inaugural?

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord. On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas that for far too long have strangled our politics. We remain a young nation. But in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things.

The adults were in charge now. That’s been his approach to the GOP ever since, his speeches adorned with endless straw men and false choices designed to portray his critics — including his critics on the left, occasionally — as pie-eyed ideologues forever trying to drag him from the responsible, adult path. It’s annoying, but you can chalk that up to partisan politics if you like. What’s harder to explain is O taking the “adult in the room” attitude with other heads of state. Sometimes it’s an undertone, like when he and Kerry whine that Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine isn’t the way nations behave in the 21st century. The international order is more adult now, the argument implies; first-world countries settle their problems with “dialogue,” not with bombs and guns. Sometimes, though, it’s a bit more than an undertone:

I don’t have a bad personal relationship with Putin. When we have conversations, they’re candid, they’re blunt, oftentimes they’re constructive. I know the press likes to focus on body language and he’s got that kind of slouch, looking like the bored kid in the back of the classroom.

That remark, from last August, reportedly didn’t go over well in the Kremlin and it’s been all downhill ever since. So why does O say stuff like that? Maybe the simplest explanation is the correct one: He’s bought into his own B.S. and now his ego really is that big. Or maybe there’s a strategic element to the “adult in the room” approach. Maybe, by positioning himself and the U.S. as above the fray abroad, it makes non-intervention a bit more salable to voters. The public may be war weary but they also don’t like to think that America’s showing weakness towards aggressors; the “above the fray” view, in which we’re endlessly “disappointed” in how other nations behave, allows us to save some face while refusing to act. We don’t need to dirty our hands by playing in the sewer with these kids. What adult would want to?

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This is classic narcissistic personality disorder. Barack HUSSEIN Obama belongs in a psych ward, not the White House.

Left unsaid: Barry undoubtably feels the American People have “failed” him and have proven “unworthy” of his messianic genius. Hitler felt the same way about the German people when he was cowering in his bunker. You see, Obama NEVER fails. Others fail HIM…

The poor puerile being, who’s never going to be a grown up, disappoints the world.

Look, squirrels, in LA tomorrow and in San Diego the day after…no doubt cashing in, stuffing his and his minions’ pockets, those that made billions in coal hedgefunds he controlled, and are now for clean energy and such shenanigans.

“There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams — not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”

I think this is more revealing of Obama supporters like David Remnick that it is of Obama.

The world just isn’t ready for your savior is it, David? It needs to be cleansed doesn’t it, David? That justifies all the lies you publish doesn’t it, David? And all the hate you spew about the “Tea Baggers”?

Only an out-of-touch ivory tower dwelling dope doesn’t understand that human nature is what it is. We’re not more highly evolved and civilized now that we’re in the much-vaunted 21st century. Islamists and other totalitarians are going to keep doing what they do. This is the fatal flaw of progressivism — although he sees it as a flaw in people.

Hasn’t he always bought into his own B.S.? Nothing like someone who also believes the lies he spins.

upinak on May 6, 2014 at 11:25 AM

He was taught to believe in his own BS. Your father abandons you and you title your “auto” “biography” Dreams of My Father because he had Important Things to do. Or so your grandparents told him, and that Barry would have important things to do as well. Despite not having done anything constructive.

I am not disappointed in Obama. He is pretty much everything I pegged him to be from the get go. Hence I oppose him and pretty much everything he stands for. I am disappointed in the idiots who think he is the greatest thing since sliced bread. From the first election and the second. To you all who did,
“Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me”

Maybe the simplest explanation is the correct one: He’s bought into his own B.S. and now his ego really is that big.

It’s that simple. He’s a narcissist who’s been coddled and pandered to his entire life(especially since 2004), so when reality slaps him upside the head, he can’t deal with it. Nothing is ever his fault. He can never admit wrongdoing or any shortcomings. And he keeps giving the same speeches over and over again because at some point he figures his words will penetrate our thick, stubborn skulls and his utopian vision will finally be realized.

The real danger is that the rest of the world has tuned him out and more than half of this country has done so as well. And he’s President for another 2 1/2 years. It’s gonna be an ugly ride til 2017.

Hasn’t he always bought into his own B.S.?
upinak on May 6, 2014 at 11:25 AM

Yes. A law school classmate’s of Obama’s once wrote about how his fellow students would groan when Obama was called upon in class, because they knew they’d have to sit through several minutes of his self-important bloviating. They even made up a game to help them endure the tediousness — they would score Obama’s remarks on a scale they called the Obamameter: the more smug, arrogant, and self-referential the remarks, the higher the score.

Well, if he’s going to allude to 1 Corinthians 13, let’s see what it says:

If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

Somebody does like the sound of his own speeches.

2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

Who was it that said when he got elected the oceans would start to recede?

3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

At least you can’t accuse Obama of giving all that he possesses to the poor.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

“It’s very rare that I come to an event where I’m like the fifth- or sixth-most interesting person.”

5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

But it’s okay in this case, because it really is all Bush’s fault.

6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

*cough*Benghazi*cough*

7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

And he’s doing his best to see that that knowledge does fail.

9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.

“My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.”

When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

I got nothing; I can find no evidence of manhood here.

12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

“…you’re absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith.”

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

1 And Obama looked upon the world in its iniquity, and it disappointed Him.
2 Thus He commanded Noah to build Him an ark, and to gather unto it, two by two, power couples,
3 one from every newspaper, network and left-wing blog, each paired with an administration flak, bureaucrat or billionaire Wall Street crony…

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord. On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas that for far too long have strangled our politics. We remain a young nation. But in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things.

Yes, because the campaign was over, Democrats could stop doing all those things. It’s too bad it didn’t stick.

Yes. A law school classmate’s of Obama’s once wrote about how his fellow students would groan when Obama was called upon in class, because they knew they’d have to sit through several minutes of his self-important bloviating. They even made up a game to help them endure the tediousness — they would score Obama’s remarks on a scale they called the Obamameter: the more smug, arrogant, and self-referential the remarks, the higher the score.

AZCoyote on May 6, 2014 at 11:49 AM

Which he also does every time he gives that same speech he’s been giving for 6 years. Who the hell decided that Obama is a gifted orator? He isn’t. I heard better speeches in high school speech class than this boring monotonic moron gives.

The US “recovery” is starting to feel more and more recessionary by the day. As we warned after we reported the trade deficit, it was only a matter of time before the Q1 GDP cuts came. And come they did, first from Barclays, and now from Goldman, which just doubled its GDP forecast loss for the past quarter from -0.3% to -0.6%.

And he keeps giving the same speeches over and over again because at some point he figures his words will penetrate our thick, stubborn skulls and his utopian vision will finally be realized.
Doughboy on May 6, 2014 at 11:48 AM

Great point.
He’s like the stereotype ugly American tourist who keeps repeating English phrases/questions, successively slower and louder, at foreigners who don’t understand English.

There is a phenomenon of someone understanding so little about a subject that they assume that it’s easy. I can’t remember the name of it though. Anyway, this guy has got that in spades about any number of different issues.